Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	ireland_n	king_n	scotland_n	4,095	5	8.1855	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80277	The complaint of the boutefeu, scorched in his owne kindlings. Or The backslider filled with his owne wayes: in two letters of the ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-Fergus, to the Lord of Ardes, now in rebellion in Ulster, in Ireland, against the common-wealth of England: with his answer to the first of those letters. Together with some animadversions upon the sayd letters.		1649 (1649)	Wing C5614; Thomason E566_18; ESTC R206202	7,759	16

THE COMPLAINT OF THE BOVTEFEV Scorched in his owne Kindlings OR THE BACKSLIDER Filled with his owne VVayes In two LETTERS of the Ministers of the PRESBYTERY at CARRICK-FERGUS to the Lord of ARDES Now in Rebellion in ULSTER in IRELAND against the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND WITH HIS ANSWER TO THE FIRST of those LETTERS Together with some Animadversions upon the sayd LETTERS Published by Authority London Printed by Matthew Simmons 1649. TWO LETTERS FROM THE PRESBYTERY OF CARRICK-FERGUS to the Lord Ards and his answer to the first of them Right Honourable THE present strange alteration of affaires moves us to write our minde freely to your Lordship especially since as it appeares now clearely you have been the chiefe Author of all those calamities We would first put your Lordship in minde of the hazzard you were in before the Covenant was renewed and how yee complyed with us then for your owne safety with solemnity and forwardnesse ye renewed the Covenant Ye your selfe first moved and framed a Declaration in opposition to Malignant courses and all the present enemies of the cause of God In the Propositions to be offered to 〈◊〉 King you agreed that these concerning Religion should be first offered and if these were not granted no other should be presented Your Declaration also beares very large profession both in generall that ye would doe nothing in reference to Religion without our consent and advice and that least God should leave you to fall in errour and particularly that ye would acknowledge the Kings Demands when he should give satisfaction in securing Religion before he were admitted to the exercise of his Royall Power you all along shew your selfe ready to subscribe all Orders against Malignants and so by ample professions engaged us the more deeply to give credit to your Declarations and trust your faithfulnesse Yet neverthelesse your Lordship hath had secret dealing to bring in Malignants and had correspondence with them and all this time has been dealing subtilly in your heart professing one thing and intending another which has beene a most notorious deceit to insnare the people of God to advance your most synistrous ends Who cou●● have beleiv'd that your Lordship would have avo●●ed a Commission from the King when he yet ●●●●●ses as much as his Father to secure Religion 〈◊〉 followes wicked counsell and so avowedly to violate that Article of your Declaration or that yee would owne a wicked association of Irish Papists and under colour of strengthening should have betrayed that Garrison of Belfast We must be faithfull in warning your Lordship though the Lord knowes what heavinesse it is to us that the Lord will reward you if you repent not for such a betraying of the faithfull servants of God who would have plucked out their eyes for you and the Lord will visit your Familie with sudden ruine and irrepairable desolation for that you have beene so grand an instrument to destroy the worke of God here We exhort your Lordship in the Name of the living God to whom ye must give an account in haste to forsake that infamous and ungodly course you are in and adhere to your former profession otherwayes all the calamities that will ensue will be laid on your score The Lord himselfe and all the faithfull will set themselves against you and we will testifie of your unfaithfulnesse to the World so long as the Lord shall give us strength we shall yet continue to pray for your Lordships conversion and shall expect your Answer remaining Your Lordships servants in all duty the Ministry of the Presbytery At Carrick-fergus June 29. 1649. HAD not the strange and treasonable Libell of the Scots Presbytery at Belfast by them there published the 15. of Feb. last prepared that simple people to put on the yoak who are alwayes ready to be fired by such Boutefeux and led by those Demagogues from their duty and their Interest to their ruine there had not been at present that strange alteration of affaires in the Province of Vlster nor the Ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-fergus the same men or some of them who were at Belfast had beene furnished with an occasion to write so freely to his Lordship and to tell him that he hath beene the chiefe Author though themselves were the pri●● ones of all these Calamities That Libell of theirs against the Parliament of England the Supreame Authority under whose protection these Incendiaries lived hath been Declared against by Parliament and also examined by a private Pen and the Treason of it layd out to the World before these effects were visible to all though they might then have been foreseen and were so in the tendency of their cause They then must needs cry down the Sectaries that is as themselves interpret the Parliament of England and will determine that the Fundamentall Government of England and Ireland is by King and Parliament and stirre up the people not to depart from it beleeving like cleare sighted men that Charles the second the hastily proclaimed King of Scotland would most readily imbrace and Cordially maintaine their Idoll Covenant Yet he that could see but as farre as a Batt at Noone may very well judge though hee should onely take the ground from the people that are about him that Cu●● loves the Covenant as well as a Scotch Priest loves a Bishop But their obedient Sonne Montgomery the Lord of the Ards is so well Catechised with that Doctrine of the Classes that he accepts a Commission from the same Charles the second of Scotland which he yet conceales going first out into Rebellion with the most of his Nation there if not all upon the account of the Covenant to prevent those dangers from the wicked Sectaries of which he had so zealous and pious warning from his received Ghostly Fathers Meane while thereby besides their owne Rebellion giving such a Diversion to those forces of the English Nation in Vlster as held faithfull to their duty that they were not able to contribute any assistance to Collonell Jones for resistance of Ormond and Inchiquine and the rest of the Irish Rebels that now entred Colonell Jones quarters tooke in many out Garrisons and among other Drogheda and Besieged Dublin it selfe which also had been in great danger to have been lost had it not beene with great prudence and foresight cleared of all suspected Vermin within and with much Courage and Gallantry defended against all efforts without by that worthy Governour Colonell Jones now Leivtenant Generall of the Horse in Ireland who ought to be loved and honoured of all true English that would promote the Interest of this Nation Thus these Sons of Bichri have blowne a Trumpet of Rebellion to all that Kingdome which themselves poore men now see is not like to stablish their blessed Covenant or their Canonical Presbytery For whil they had thought their well taught Son of their Kirk the Lord of Arder had been onely in Armes against the Sectaries He though a young